Gene Davis (painter)
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Gene Davis was an American Color Field painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color.
Street in downtown Washington, D.C. painted in Davis' style
Franklin's Footpath
Sun Sonata by Gene Davis.
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Color field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. It was inspired by European modernism and closely related to abstract expressionism, whil
Gene Davis (painter)
…Gene Davis (August 22, 1920 – April 6, 1985) was an American Color Field painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color. Davis was born in Washington, D.C., in 1920 and spent nearly all his life…
Kenneth Noland, Beginning, 1958, magna on canvas painting, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Working in Washington, D.C., Noland was a pioneer of the color field movement in the late 1950s.
Henri Matisse, Porte-fenêtre à Collioure (French Window at Collioure), 1914, Centre Georges Pompidou, "Throughout my life, the 20th-century painter whom I've admired the most has been Matisse", Robert Motherwell 1970.
Jack Bush, Big A, 1968. Bush was a Canadian artist closely tied to color field painting and lyrical abstraction which grew out of abstract expressionism.
Ronnie Landfield, Rite of Spring, 1985. Landfield's work emerged during the 1960s. His works are reflections of both Chinese landscape painting and the color field idiom. His paintings bridge color field painting with lyrical abstraction.